What happens
Jack Benny and his cast banter about clothes, style and his birthday in the studio, with Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone and Kenny Baker taking part. Benny's boasting about being named one of the ten best-dressed men draws ribbing from Phil Harris. A cake and a telegram from Benny's father add to the birthday theme. Benny rehearses a romantic scene from a new Paramount picture with Mary Livingstone, and film star Robert Taylor arrives to offer coaching. The program is part of the Jack Benny series, first broadcast on February 13, 1938.
A radio studio during a Jack Benny broadcast, with the cast in the studio for a February 1938 show.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Kenny Baker, Eddie Anderson, Robert Taylor
Listen for: Benny's rehearsal of a romantic scene with Mary Livingstone and Robert Taylor's coaching of it.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.